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savvytest for z is a tool designed to highly efficiently create unit tests on System z platforms. While unit test frameworks just provide a frame or template for the implementation of unit tests, savvytest provides a different approach. With savvytest, test data and check conditions (assertions) are created with the help of an Eclipse plug-in - without even one line of code.

Due to the way savvytest works, the creation of unit tests becomes significantly improved in speed. Even more, business experts can now easily contribute to the unit testing process without the need for any training at all, helping you to keep the quality high from the beginning. Issues can be detected in requirements or design much earlier than ever, leading to lower error fixing costs by as much as 80%.

savvytest for z is a plug-in for Eclipse based development environments, designed to provide fast and highly efficient creation of unit tests.

The aim of this tool is to drastically reduce error fixing costs by providing a fast and easy way to create unit tests. This is basically done by unit testing without programming at all. As a consequence, unit tests can be created not only much faster, in addition to that, even non IT-savvy business experts can contribute their know-how very easily to assure quailty as soon as possible - during implementation.

By doing so, business requirements get more focus during unit testing than ever before, leading to a higher quality at a very early point. It has been found that the costs for fixing errors in requirements or design can thus be reduced by 80% or more. The risk of piling up of technical debts is significantly reduced.

The integration of business experts into the unit testing process is made very easy by the ability to export test scenarios to Excel, update them within the known office software environment, and import the data back into savvytest. Business experts can now contribute easily without the need for technical training.

savvytest for z also provides genuine isolated unit tests through the support of stubs (also referred to as mocks or mockups). Not even for this feature it is required to program even one line of code.

Of corse, savvytest unit tests can be executed in continous integration environments.

savvytest for z is a language and platform independent tool which can be easily adapted thanks to its sophisticated plug-in architecture. savvytest for z is readily available for the target platform System z or z/OS (mainframe environment) with support of COBOL, but PL/I or even Assembler can be supported on request. For other target platforms please inquire.